Alexander Ward et al.: Trump Knew the Risk of Iran Blocking the Strait of Hormuz: He Still Went to War

I mean...this story doesn't strike me as terribly unreasonable...but doesn't it seem a bit...panicky? WSJ's news coverage leans left, of course...so one has to try to correct for that. Some of the concerns described (expressed?) in the story seem legit... But, as Chris Brey notes in a previous post, everybody knew Iran was likely to try to "close" the strait of Hormuz... That's just a cost of conflict with Iran. So what's with the apparently suggestion in the headline that Trump somehow just ignored the threat...or, rather, the obvious consequence of war? Everybody knew this would be one of the things that would happen...so it's peculiar grounds for panic...

   Also...what happened to Iran's announcement that it was opening the strait back up to everybody but the U.S. and Israel (and we don't really need it, apparently)? Why no mention of that? Because, you see, that seems huge to me. That's basically giving up on that front, so far as I can tell.

   And the stock market is tanking? Tanking?? Since when? Nobody tells me anything...

   Anyway.

   Look, I'm concerned about this war. Very, very concerned.

   But the overall tone of the news coverage is perfectly predictable: ominous suggestions that everything will go to hell...because Trump. Everything Trump does is bad and wrong. A tone of dread and disapproval is cast over every one of his actions and policies.

    And everything sure as hell might go to hell... I tend to think that's the most likely outcome of most wars...

   But I'm not going to let the MSM's TDS be the thing that sends me into panic mode.

   But what the hell do I know?

   Almost nothing, that's what.